News: Marriage license issued here for first wedding in space

Marriage license issued here for first wedding in space

By ERIC HANSON
Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle

July 17, 2003, 1:57PM


The Fort Bend County clerk issued a marriage license today for a
Russian cosmonaut and a Clear Lake woman who plan to marry next month
while he's still 240 miles above the Earth.

Yuri Malenchenko, a member of international space station crew since
April, will still be on the job in August when he marries an
Earth-bound Soviet immigrant, 26-year-old Ekaterina Dmitritv.

Malenchenko, a 41-year-old Russian air force colonel, proposed to
Dmitritv in December but doesn't want to wait until his return in late
October or early November to seal their extraordinarily long-distance
relationship.


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